Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third of all FORTUNE 500 companies regularly review health information before making hiring decisions. And that's nothing compared with what awaits us when employers and insurance companies start testing our DNA for possible imperfections. Farfetched? More than 200 subjects in a case study published last January in the journal Science and Engineering Ethics reported that they had been discriminated against as a result of genetic testing. None of them were actually sick, but DNA analysis suggested that they might become sick someday. "The technology is getting ahead of our ethics," says Nagel, and the Clinton Administration clearly agrees...
Sources: New England Journal of Medicine; Food and Drug Administration; Cell; Neuron...
...Sources: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society; Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association; American Academy of Pediatrics
...Journal is a masterpiece of brand extension: a series of blank pages that have intermittent homilies from Winston Churchill to Bob Hope to Laura Ingalls Wilder. On each day, the buyer is to write five things the buyer is grateful for. Oprah talked about the child who was thankful for the sound of his mother laughing, an observation surely to be valued above Power Rangers and Super Soakers. But does this justify $12.95 for a diary? New York Times Book Review editor Charles McGrath has declined to put the book on the Advice, How-to and Miscellaneous list (where Abundance...
...Abundance is now a registered trademark, and there are calendars and audiotapes. But merchandising is less offensive when the author gives 10% of her earnings to charity--$250,000 already this year to the House of Ruth, Habitat for Humanity and the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, among others. And whether Journal is a book or not, it became, with Oprah's help, No. 1 on the Wall Street Journal's best-seller list...